PLEASE HELP! Quality Issues, pixelation.

OniZabuza · Post by **OniZabuza** » Tue Aug 15, 2006 12:54 pm

Oh AMV experts, I beseech thee, aid me in my quest to not have crappy video quality...

So working on my new AMV, i've encountered this issue with quality. I took painstaking efforts to get all the right software to properly rip the videos from my FFX game and convert them into high quality video (so that I might please the AMV gods).

The source footage (image #1 below) is very nice, unpixellated quality.

When I export my AMV (image #2 below), it is immediately crappy quality, and very pixellated even when viewed at the same zoom level. I've tried a number of different options hoping to fix it, but nothing seems to work!

Can you video gurus please help me??

SOURCE IMAGE #1

EXPORTED IMAGES #2

My premiere project settings (Microsoft AVI):

Thanks in advance! I am excited because the video is so close to being done. This is virtually my only obstacle left. There's a preview version up at
http://www.kithedman.com/amv/AfterFINAL.avi

Zarxrax · Post by **Zarxrax** » Tue Aug 15, 2006 12:57 pm

As you should be able to see, the exported image is not the same size as the source, so Premiere is resizing your footage. Changing the pixel aspect ratio to 1.0 Square may fix it, though I'm not certain.

The biggest problem though, is that you are using the cinepak codec. This is undoubtedly the crappiest codec known to man. Use uncompressed.

OniZabuza · Post by **OniZabuza** » Tue Aug 15, 2006 1:03 pm

I should have mentioned this before, the exported image is slightly cropped.

I will try uncompressed and square pixels now

OniZabuza · Post by **OniZabuza** » Tue Aug 15, 2006 1:16 pm

Just tried it with square pixels, and with compressor set to "None" and again, no luck

madbunny · Post by **madbunny** » Tue Aug 15, 2006 4:40 pm

X2 about cinipak. I think it's just there to mess with you.

Huffyuv is a better alternative to uncompressed raw.
Also, some of those lines almost look like interlacing, did you turn interlacing and fields off?

OniZabuza · Post by **OniZabuza** » Tue Aug 15, 2006 5:52 pm

ok longer using cinepack, this is uncompressed. i turned on De-Interlacing and i got an improvement... here it is, compare the background of this one versus the original bad quality one. STILL though, if you look at the line under his white hood on his shoulder, you can see how pixellated it still is! Any more ideas?

Zarxrax · Post by **Zarxrax** » Tue Aug 15, 2006 5:58 pm

The original source is 704x480, and your output is 720x480, so its still being resized. Set it to output at 704x480, and see of that helps. Try the pixel aspect ratio setting both ways.

OniZabuza · Post by **OniZabuza** » Tue Aug 15, 2006 6:39 pm

Hmm, tried it and no change at all.

Also I just downloaded and tried Agarith Loseless Codec and Huffyuv, and fiddled with the options, but with no success.

Anything else?

madbunny · Post by **madbunny** » Tue Aug 15, 2006 7:04 pm

OniZabuza wrote:ok longer using cinepack, this is uncompressed. i turned on De-Interlacing and i got an improvement...
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If you look, you can see that the line goes all the way through, it's not just at the edges. That's what leaves me to think that it's being interlaced. Is this particular clip being interlaced (for example, did you slow it down under 100% speed?), or is an effect on it.

I'm not sure about premiere pro's de-interlacer, but the pne on earlier versions sucked. Could be that's why you're seeing 'some' improvement, but it's not fixing the problem.

Again, X2 what ZarXrax said about keeping the original size.

Gepetto · Post by **Gepetto** » Tue Aug 15, 2006 7:08 pm

premiere pro's deinterlacer does suck. Mybe you swapped the feild order? Try going between upper-field first and lower-field first.